The number of annual shipments for tablet devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics players and handset manufacturers enter the market, finds Juniper Research‘s latest report. According to Juniper Research the catalyst for this expanding market is not the iPad but the Android Operating system which is allowing…
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One in ten iPad users still not downloaded an app
Nielsen at the end of last week produced a survey of more than 5,000 consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media/games player, or smartphone, and there’s some interesting reading. It seems that although the iPad is incredibly succesful there are still a few owners – nearly 1 in 10 – who just…
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for mobile publishers
Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Suite , launched today is designed to provide publishers and developers with a set of hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimise and sell digital content direct to consumers. The suite is put together from Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe InDesign CS5 software, and adds additional functionality including a…
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Taking the app to the Mac
How strange that on the day that Microsoft chose to launch the first Windows Phone 7 product Apple have decided to announce that, they’re about to take their app store to the Mac. Do you think the two are possibly connected? At an Apple product launch for the new MacBook Air, Apple made the announcement…
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91% growth in iPhone sales
For months the media have been saying that the antennagate affair would have a serious affect on iPhone sales, and the results from Apple’s latest quarter revenue results, show it has, but not in the way everyone thought. Apple reported it’s highest ever quarterly revenue and earnings, and iPhone sales have gone through the roof,…
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11 Million tablets to ship in 2010
According to new forecasts from ABI Research, just over 11 million media tablets and 43 million netbooks will ship worldwide this year. While the 43 million figure sounds big it’s actually somewhat lower than observers expected at the end of last year. Last year netbook sales were big and they were expected to get bigger…
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LG delays launch of Android 2.2 tablet – software update on the horizon?
Google’s head of mobile Hugo Berra was said to have spooked many a manufacturer last month when he openly noted that Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) is “not optimised for use on tablets”
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Wired UK to do an iPad version that “won’t be better than the magazine”
Publishers Condé Nast are to launch an iPad version of UK Wired to test the market. The iPad version will however not be going monthly immediately. The first version is intended only as a way of testing the water. The original announcement from the Wired blog explains that the iPad issue will be built in-house…
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Apple results sweepstake get your predictions in.
We’re in readiness for Apple’s Q4 results and the pundits are getting their predictions in for what Apple will announce in two weeks time. Horace Dediu at Asymco’s predictions are iPhone units: 12.2 13 million (65% 77% growth) Macs: 4 million (30% growth) iPads: 3.3 5 million iPods: 9.4 9.7 million (-5% growth) Music growth: 26.7%…
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Games are still the dominant apps category
The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
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What happens to the iPad if nobody else’s tablets are any good?
Have you handled any tablet computers (excluding the iPad)? Of course not – they’re still not in the shops, and in the case of RIM’s PlayBook, there’s doubt about whether it even exists
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Kindle owners are considerably richer than you
A survey of portable device ownership from Nielsen shows some extremes in the professions, pockets and ad proclivity of their owners. Nielsen has released a few of the findings from their new Connected Devices Playbook, a survey of more than 5,000 US consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media player or smartphone.…
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iPad owners browse the web, read email and read the papers
Contrary to popular opinion the main use for the iPad is not as an expensive drinks tray, or as an upmarket etch-a-sketch for over paid executives but it’s as an electronic version of the daily paper, and owners of the iPads are more likely to be male and in your late twenties or early thirties,…
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Dropbox updates iOS and Android apps and launches on BlackBerry
You’re on the road, a customer calls and he wants the latest version of a file, trouble is it’s on your laptop at home. What do you do? Well if you’ve got an iPad/iPhone or an Android phone you go and download Dropbox, and then you sit back calm in the knowledge that you now…
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Apple commences phase 2 of the World Domination plan
Look at the graphic to your right. Blink once, blink twice. Yes it really is still there. Apple “are” selling the iPhone in easy instalments, and it’s not going to make the mobile operators happy, it’s just going to make Apple richer, and it’s going to make the iPhone – the iPad can’t be too…
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Telegraph launches an iPad app
In our post earlier this morning we gave full marks to the FT for getting a sponsor for their initial iPad app, and now it’s the turn of the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph for iPad application launched yesterday and is described as free for “a limited period” – they don’t say when…
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FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…
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O2 get promotional on their iPad data pricing
O2’s iPad customers are up in arms at O2’s decision to cut their monthly data allocations. O2 customers who signed up for the iPad were initially told they could choose from plans with a 500MB cap, a 1 GB cap, or a 3 GB cap, but O2 has changed it’s terms and those caps are…
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Why you won’t see smaller iPads next year – though you will see revised iPads
The rumour mill is working overtime to suggest that Apple is going to try to compete with Samsung and others in offering a 7-inch tablet early in 2011. Here’s why that’s misguided – and what Apple will actually do
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More iPad updates from iOS 4.2
According to Apple the original intention for the release of iOS 4.2, coming so close after bug-fix 4.1 , was to harmonise the iPad iOS with the iPhone and iPod Touch iOS. However this original intention seems to be going a little askew, as Apple have chucked in a few iPad-only goodies in the new…